Physiology and Medicine
- William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
- Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the fourth Bridgewater Treatise.
- Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.
- Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.
- Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
- Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified).
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